Letter: Trump could build housing for refugees

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7:20 am EDT, Wednesday, June 27, 2018

TORNILLO, TEXAS - JUNE 20: Vehicles are seen in front of the tent encampment recently built near the Tornillo Port of Entry on June 20, 2018 in Tornillo, Texas. The Trump administration is using the Tornillo tent facility to house immigrant children separated from their parents after they were caught entering the U.S. under the administration's zero tolerance policy.(Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images) less

TORNILLO, TEXAS - JUNE 20: Vehicles are seen in front of the tent encampment recently built near the Tornillo Port of Entry on June 20, 2018 in Tornillo, Texas. The Trump administration is using the Tornillo ... more

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TORNILLO, TEXAS - JUNE 20: Vehicles are seen in front of the tent encampment recently built near the Tornillo Port of Entry on June 20, 2018 in Tornillo, Texas. The Trump administration is using the Tornillo tent facility to house immigrant children separated from their parents after they were caught entering the U.S. under the administration's zero tolerance policy.(Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images) less

TORNILLO, TEXAS - JUNE 20: Vehicles are seen in front of the tent encampment recently built near the Tornillo Port of Entry on June 20, 2018 in Tornillo, Texas. The Trump administration is using the Tornillo ... more

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Letter: Trump could build housing for refugees

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Here's my proposal: Democrats should offer to support a bill providing low-interest building loans to the Trump Organization (no one has prevented him from profiting from his political office anyway) and throw in the use of eminent domain to build three-story housing structures along the border.

These structures will be devoted to providing minimal but decent housing for — but only for — refugees seeking safe haven and asylum immediately at our border. Do we think Trump will want to prevent refugees from entering the country? Do we think he will care if "the wall" is discontinuously porous? I'm betting it would entirely change his perspective on refugees and immigrants. His heart will grow three sizes that day.